California Refuses To Cooperate With Trump Voter Fraud Probe

[highplainsdem]

Source: HuffPo

The California secretary of state is refusing to comply with a request from President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission to provide personal information about the state’s registered voters.

Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a statement Thursday that Trump’s voter fraud commission’s request of personal voting data on every American voter “is a waste of taxpayer money” that aims to ratify a false claim that millions voted illegally.

California, which had more than 19.4 million registered voters as of February. is the first state to announce it will not comply with the commission’s request. Trump’s commission on Wednesday asked all states to provide personal information about registered voters. Trump has claimed, without evidence, that millions voted illegally in last year’s presidential election.

″I will not provide sensitive voter information to a commission that has already inaccurately passed judgment that millions of Californians voted illegally,” Padilla said.

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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-trump-voter-fraud-probe_us_5955683be4b0da2c7322389c?1dl

[Chasstev365]

1. OK Bkue states: Follow suit!

[Honeycombe8]

2. AND red states, I hope. We don't want the fed getting rolls of registered voters from anywhere.

The red states have plenty of independents and Dems and Green Party on their rolls. Some sanctuary cities are in red states. Texas has several. (They self-identify sanctuary.)

[haele]

11. Hopefully, the local Registrar of Voters also stand fast.

Some of the SoSs in those Red States may turn over the data they have - but depending on the state, the registration that is handled locally might be able to be protected.

Haele

[mdbl]

3. Every state should refuse. They can't be trusted with their own credit cards much less

my personal information.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. .

[sheshe2]

5. Excellent...

The rest of you states need to step up to the plate.

[BigmanPigman]

6. A ridiculous claim from the start and a waste of time and money.

Focus on real issues and stop creating a silly buzz as a distraction. The media falls for it and gives it enough air time for it to gather steam over and over.

When will the MSM learn to just IGNORE and DISMISS him! Duh. That's what you do when a 3 year old acts or says something silly. Don't ever take him seriously. He is a buffoon, liar, and con man as well as a narcissistic sociopath with a spoiled 3 year old maturity level. He should always be treated this way by the media, politicians, and the public.

[geretogo]

10. You described this evil clown exactly .

[bluestateboomer]

7. K&R!

[Maven]

8. GOOD and I love that Padilla made no bones about the reason why. nt

[geretogo]

9. Resist tyranny at all costs .

[Gothmog]

12. Good-there is no need to give Kobach this information

[byronius]

13. Yay CA!

[Hekate]

14. GOOD! Thanks Alex Padilla!

Resist

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. The return email address on that request for voter rolls is kremlin.ru. . . . nt

[Maxheader]

16. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach

must be whispering into some
ones ear...

[flibbitygiblets]

17. Sure, so you can give it DIRECTLY to Putin? I don't think so pal. /nt

[Amaryllis]

18. My guess is that Oregon will not cooperate either, and Washington state. All blue states.

[Wounded Bear]

24. I'm hoping so!

Go Seahawks! Go Mariners!

[angrychair]

38. Ummmm

Go Sounders!

[TomVilmer]

19. No need to ask - they can just buy your data!

"... Voter and Election Data Available for Purchase. California law allows for the sale of voter and election data under certain circumstances. ..."
https://www.ocvote.com/data/voter-data-available-for-purchase/

[MichMan]

37. Not sure how they legally refuse n/m

[More_Cowbell]

20. Virginia has also said no

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/29/trumps-voter-fraud-commission-wants-to-know-the-voting-history-party-id-and-address-of-every-voter-in-america/?utm_term=.0d69700a3fae

[joeybee12]

21. Good. Knr

[Jim__]

22. Good for California!

[SDJay]

23. Good.

How many nanoseconds would pass before these turds got their hands on this info - which includes me - and it was delivered to Overlord Pooty Poot?

Fuck off, treasonous scumbags.

[ResistantAmerican17]

25. Cut out the middle man---send the info straight to Moscow

Putin needs to be able to get that data quickly.

[Chemisse]

26. Lead the way, California.

[azureblue]

27. please proceed, President

You push this, CA will eat you alive. A word of advice: Look at the CA flag, Trump. See that bear? don't poke at it..

[Sunlei]

31. no they won't ,only one state has a bit of a spine but they're still in recovery from the Terminator

[skylucy]

28. I love my state!!

[gademocrat7]

29. K&R!

Kobach is another slimy cabal member.

[Sunlei]

30. You already stole the voter info, ss#s,BD of millions off that amazon cloud, you Russian colluders.

That happened last week.

[TeamPooka]

32. I love my state.

[Hieronymus]

33. Good

[DesertRat]

34. Can't wait for his tweet about this

the "so-called state" of California... Deep state... Obama lovers...

[TheBlackAdder]

35. Two weeks after states sends in their data, it will be mirrored on a server in Moscow!

[C Moon]

36. The GOP can't be trusted. They want California sooooo bad.

[angrychair]

39. This is a suspect request

Who is to say this won't be used for other means, like data analytics for the dream that he will actually be around for another campaign (incredibly unlikely unless you can do it from federal prison or from the Russian embassy)
Worse use it to target people in some other, very numerous, ways. Very disconcerting.

[yuiyoshida]

40. I am so fucking proud to be a Californian!

[BadgerMom]

43. Me, too!

[moonscape]

46. Me, 1000 n/t

[zentrum]

41. Thank you Alex Padilla.

[BadgerMom]

42. Woot! Woot!

Thank you, SoS Padilla!

[truthisfreedom]

44. States Rights! RESIST!

RESIST!

[riversedge]

45. Thank you California

[red dog 1]

47. Good for CA

K&R

[red dog 1]

48. K&R

Good for CA

I wonder how many other states will follow suit?

[Duppers]

49. The LIST, so far...

"Top officials in more than 10 states have announced they won't turn over all voter roll data to President Trump's commission on voter fraud.

As of Friday afternoon, officials in New York, California, Massachusetts, Kentucky and Virginia had said they would not turn over any of their voter data to the voter fraud commission.

Other officials in Connecticut, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Vermont, Utah, North Carolina, Indiana and Iowa said they would only turn over public information on voter rolls, but wouldn't share private information."

More...
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/340262-ny-governor-we-wont-comply-with-voter-fraud-myth

[ailsagirl]

51. Are any of these officials repukes?

[Duppers]

52. Kentucky's

All of these southern and Midwestern states should be reminded of their "STATES RIGHTS" crapolo motto when facing these requests.

[ailsagirl]

53. Thanks for the info, Duppers

[Duppers]

54. Must correct my mistake.

That was a Democrat in KY!!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029278889

Mea culpa. I mistakenly thought officials in Kentucky were R's.

[ailsagirl]

55. No problem

BTW, it's nice to hear someone say "mea culpa" instead of "my bad" !!
Sounds so much better

[AntiFascist]

50. K&R, the California Republic resists! n/t